hello everyone this is Christy Whitman with the Quantum Success
Show where you can get your information and inspiration and as you can see I
have a very very very special guest today
if you haven't recognized her face this this is Marianne Williamson and she is
not just a
New York Times bestselling author of many books including the classic Return To
Love
but also a global presence and internationally
recognized spiritual teacher who has been helping people transform their lives for
many years now including mine and she has officially announced her candidacy
for election to the US House of Representatives
from California's congressional district 33.
So welcome Marianne. Thank you so much Christy. I appreciate it. I'm so happy that you're here and I just have to say this
to you
its truly a pleasure because I I came to know you about fifteen sixteen years
ago
and I was a sales rep at the time and I would listen to your tapes
in my car and would hear you and then
at critical moments in my life I would hear your voice
and like my sister had committed suicide and I remember you saying you when your
tapes
that you know its like if we have nine tears to cry
we only cry 6 of them. You know its like there are still tears
that are left that need to be released and so that....I would have you in my head
and the moments I felt like I had couldn't cry I would remember what you
would say
and I would allow myself to cry so
I mean that's just one example and one the other things is that your
deep.. you know the deepest fear and I'm gonna put this below the video.
When I first heard that it was about
twelve years ago and that was the first time I ever gave myself permission
to stop shrinking and that's when I became an author and
literally life just completely opened up for me and it was even a few years ago
through you know getting rid of a lot of the deepest fears that I had
like inadequacies
inadequacies and things like that that truly
when I came into my power it was like
that's where I realized wow,I really do have fear with my power so
I would love for you to talk just briefly about cuz it changed my life.
well first of all my deepest condolences about
that your sister. Oh Thank you. I have lost a sister as well.
To have lot a sister to suicide.. I
can't even imagine the trauma that that would have been your life and I
very sorry about that... thank you.... and honored to think that I played
even a small part in your recovery and your
moving through that; your grief. Of course the whole
idea of our deepest fear....it's interesting about that paragraph
becoming so well known because it's simply a paragraph in my book
Return to Love. It's not even in a separate section or a special poem or anything like that.
So it's quite a mystery
how that one paragraph got taken out
mis-attributed to Nelson Mandela and
all of the but I understand not
only with that paragraph but with so much of the book
why people people are enthusiastic about it because all those are principles from
A Course in Miracles. That book is my reflections on the principles
of a Course in Miracles and that principle that we're more afraid of our light
then our darkness is like every other major principle in the book
from the course. If you think about it makes
sense because ego mind which is the mind of
believe that we're limited, where nothing more than our bodies and that we are
very powerless compared to all these extraordinary physical powers that
surround us.
that mind which in the course is called the ego
doesn't want us to recognize our
unlimited spirits because in the mind that we
in the moment that we remember who we are we also
remember who were not.So in the moment
understanding that we are part of the light which is God which is the
universe. Which is
unlimited oceanic love. In that moment
the ego disappears. So the ego mind its martialed against
the remembrance of our greatness because
to the ego that is death. The ego is afraid
If I realize who I am an the greatness
greatest that lives within me...... not that I can take personal credit for
but it lives within me as it lives in everyone else.
Then that moment is a moment of ego death. So the ego mind
is saying can't go there, can't go there, you'll die. Well that's because it will die.
Right...... but that is the whole concept of you die to who you were and
you were born to the greatness of who you are
and what better week to be discussing that then Christmas...... absolutely. So this idea
of people realizing that we play small
and sometimes through a kind of false modesty
because its true sometimes you get applause
for being small then for truly being
everything that you can be because other people
who are also playing small feel more comfortable
if you play small and if you truly say
I am going to go for the next step in my own possibility.
If I am going to step it up, if I am truly going to epand
my energy into what I know is possible for my life
there will be those who will not want to applaud you
because you're very presence will remind them that they could be doing it to.
On the other hand there are people you do not know now
who once you do make that step; it's like the are on the other shore waiting for you.
So I think it's interesting that that paragraph has gotten so much attention
because its clearly a
universal experience that all of us are having.
which is am I willing to die to who I was before I can
be who I can be. Absolutely, absolutely
Well I have a few questions for you that I'd like to ask because
on of the...the newest book I'm working on is the Art of Having it All because
like you I'm all about abundance and I'm all about love
instead of fear and lack and
I know when the reason that you're looking to or you are running
and I'm so excited for this because it's just so huge
that your voice, your presence will be.
in some form of government. Just even getting in there is just so exciting
Well we still have to get me elected. Hopefully it will happen.
You have love behind you and you have such a support
of people whose lives you've changed and this is for me as an opportunity to give
back to you for all that you given me through the years without even knowing
and so you know there are like like the government right
there are women, successful women out right now
that have written books telling other women they can't have it all
and it just it kills me because it's like how do you define
having it all and also who are you to tell other women they can't have it all.
So how do you define your it and your all and what does that look like in your
life?
Well I think most time when people are writing books saying you can't have it all; I think
those folks
may... are usually just saying you can't have it all right now
and that's not that's not a legitimate conversation.
From a spiritual perspective having and being are the same
thing. You can have whatever you are willing to be.
That goes back to the whole issue of our deepest fear.
If you wont energetically allow within yourself
allow yourself an experience of unlimited
possibility. Just conceding the possibility of infinate possibility for your
lifetime.
Whatever you see as impossible because you have deemed it not ok
you will subconsciously undermine
You wont let yourself have it. So your state of being
that you allow yourself will determine what you have
and it will also determine what you don't have.
Absolutely. So what core belief do you hold to be
true about yourself that allows you to create the experience of you haveing
your all?
That God wishes to use all of us.
That none of us are indispensable.
That none of us in our essence are limited in any way.
that we are all programmed for greatness. That every cell
is programmed in the body to collaborate with every other cell
to promote the healthy functioning of the whole and
you are similarly program to be the best you can be.
I am programmed to be the best I can be
so that we can collaborate and support the healthy functioning of the whole.
Everything's better if you become all that you can be.
Everything's better you and everything's better for me because
there's no limited pie here
in the spiritual world. It's not like if you have this, less for me.
Rather the more... the higher vibration you're at
then the higher vibration we can play at.
You call me to my highest, I call you to your highest and synergistically
we can both go higher. Now
when you believe in it spiritual source
you believe that programming has nothing to do with you personally.
God does his part if we do ours. So our job is to say yes.
Our job is to be willing to carry that
pregnancy. To allow unlimited
possibility to gestate within us and to know when we
said yes to that then there is no force
that can obstruct
the flow and the extension of that power and then it's just up to us
whether or not we're channeling our excellence,
our compassion, our own potential greatness.
so I see it as just as I see a cell
with an actual guidance system in the body. I see each of us
with the natural guidance system. That's why we are to pray.
That's why we are to meditate. That's why daily meditation
meditation... I don't know.. did you get a copy of my book
A Year of Miracles? I haven't. That's the one book of yours I don't have so I am definitely going to
get it.
Next week and I am sorry
they didn't send that to you. That's ok.
Anyway, it's daily prayers and devotions.
The more you ground yourself in spirit
the higher you can fly in the world.
You know it's counter-intuitive but
the key to being powerful in the world is to know that you're not of this world.
And that's how it works. So you talked about essence and I talk about essence to so...
in one word like what would you describe that essence as being?
How do you feel when you are........ love..... love. I mean
A Course in Miracles says love is beyond what can be defined.
you know this course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love
for love is beyond that can be defined. but it does aim at removing the barriers
to the awareness of loves presence. So that's the issue. The
issue is being in a space which
words can't name but you know in any situation whether your being generous
Whether your holding to
possibility. Whether your living in the present a rather living in the
past; in the future. You know these things. We can feel these things.
In that sense the mystery not mysterious.
They are principles to live by. You know am I acting from my strength or
from my weakness? Am I asking from my... am I from acting my
healed place or from my wounded place ?which which aspect of myself
am I bringing forward in this moment?
Absolutely. So what's one tip you can offer viewers to achieve the essence of that
vibration? I think that to
to always ask if we're not forgiving. To always ask what we're not giving
in any situation and to meditate and pray.
Those are great tips. Well I really.. Marianne I really wanna thank you for
that information
and because you've... literally I want to support you in every way I
can.
You know because you have given me so much and I know so many of my viewers
you've given them just by being you and your
decisions every moment to show up to your greatness
and because of that you know I've really been able to create a lot of
abundance in my life so
My way of giving back to you as one of my spiritual teachers
is for your campaign my family and I are giving you ten thousand dollars
you know personal money just to support you
and you know even though I don't live in California
you know this is this is so important for everybody watching this
that even if you don't live in California you know give something
to Marianne's cause because this really is a cause for love.
It's an important movement and I just encourage you to donate what after you
can because........ thank you
you know I know Marianne you're gonna make a huge difference when you're elected. And I am not saying if
if you're elected.. when you're elected because this is just
just gonna be such a huge positive changes that's not just gonna be for California
but those that are in the US and those that are in Canada and the other
countries because
as you are starting to infuse that energy into government
there's gonna be global change because of this. Well that is so kind of you to
say. Now I do want to speak
speak to your very generous point because we have to be of course legally
compliant.
no individual is able to donate more than
$5200 hundred dollars. So if you will please get on the website
marianneforcongress.com and read
there on the Donate page cuz no individual can give
10 thousand. All of that obviously has to be very legal and compliant.
I am extremely grateful
for your generosity and
you know I what people also to know somebody can give five dollars
I am honored by that as well and obviously you doing wonderful work to
Christy.
I'm honored like I said before to have been even a
tiny part of your journey at any moment and as a woman who's lost my sister
I'm glad you are on the other side of that.
That our sisters can wave from where they are and where I know they're happy now.
absolutely. Well thank you. I wish you so much success
I again I said not if its when because you have just
the presence, the essence of love about you and there's so many people that adore
you and
you know really are so excited that you are running for Congress. So
I just wanna say congratulations in advance cuz I know you're gonna win.
So thank you so much, Thank you. God bless you honey. Thank you so much.
Bye.